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re: Bama boys staying at the Fountainbleau. Good idea or Bad ?
Posted on 1/3/13 at 3:14 pm to artompkins
Posted on 1/3/13 at 3:14 pm to artompkins
It's fricking retarded for Bama to be staying there. I won't sugar coat it.
If the team allows it to be enough of a distraction that it affects their preparation or mindset then that is their fault.
I'm pretty unhappy that our coaching staff allowed this hotel. For a team that has preached all year that their away games were "business trips," this is quite the departure from a business trip.
I hope they move hotels asap.
If the team allows it to be enough of a distraction that it affects their preparation or mindset then that is their fault.
I'm pretty unhappy that our coaching staff allowed this hotel. For a team that has preached all year that their away games were "business trips," this is quite the departure from a business trip.
I hope they move hotels asap.
Posted on 1/3/13 at 3:18 pm to UPT
quote:You do know who the head man in charge is, right? I dis ain't worried even one lil bit.
It's fricking retarded for Bama to be staying there. I won't sugar coat it.
If the team allows it to be enough of a distraction that it affects their preparation or mindset then that is their fault.
I'm pretty unhappy that our coaching staff allowed this hotel. For a team that has preached all year that their away games were "business trips," this is quite the departure from a business trip.
I hope they move hotels asap.
This post was edited on 1/3/13 at 3:20 pm
Posted on 1/3/13 at 3:19 pm to UPT
Bama didn't choose it. The OB puts one team in the FB and one in the Diplomat each year.
Apparently the last two teams that won the OB stayed there.
I will say that this year, it is a bigger party there the weekend of the game than in the last few years. Paul Oakenfold is often ranked as the #1 DJ in the world and they brought him in this weekend. It will be a bigger party than usual at Liv. Oakenfold is immensely popular here.
Apparently the last two teams that won the OB stayed there.
I will say that this year, it is a bigger party there the weekend of the game than in the last few years. Paul Oakenfold is often ranked as the #1 DJ in the world and they brought him in this weekend. It will be a bigger party than usual at Liv. Oakenfold is immensely popular here.
Posted on 1/3/13 at 3:20 pm to UPT
Schools don't choose where teams stay.
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Once they arrive, they stay in lodging preselected by the bowls. Under the contracts that create the championship system, bowl organizers arrange the lodging, and the teams pay. No school can negotiate its own lodging costs.
For example, Ohio State University was required to take 150 rooms for at least six nights and pay at least $172 a night per room for its team and coaches to stay in the New Orleans Marriott during this past season's Sugar Bowl. The lodging cost at other bowls sometimes exceeds $300 a night.
The bowls say they are able to negotiate better group rates and guarantee larger blocks of rooms than a school could at the last minute.
The Fiesta Bowl's contract requires its teams to stay in Scottsdale-Paradise Valley hotels, and a recent Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau study shows that during the last Fiesta Bowl, rates there were nearly 85 percent higher than in the rest of the Valley.
Schools say they don't take issue with the accommodations, as it's part of playing in a BCS game.
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